Subj : Re: A Sad Encounter
To   : Gamgee
From : Mike Dippel
Date : Sun Jul 20 2025 09:16:34

On 7/19/2025 9:24 AM, Gamgee wrote to Mike Dippel:

-> -=> Mike Dippel wrote to All <=-
-> 
->  MD> Back in April, 1979 I was a Detroit Police Officer working a 2 man car
->  MD> in the area of Belle Isle, an island actually north of Canada.  After
->  MD> finishing our lunch on the island, we started to leave the island and
->  MD> saw a vehicle with the door open and the engine running. The owner of
->  MD> the vehicle had stepped out and stepped over the railing and looking
->  MD> down at the rushing water below.
-> 
-> <SNIP>
-> 
-> Wow, Mike.  Incredible story, and I can imagine the difficulty and 
-> emotion of talking about it.  Super cool that the child (now grown) 
-> reached out to you that way.  Perhaps you will grow into being friends.  
-> Thanks for sharing.
-> 
It has always been emotional for me to talk about, but nowhere near as emotional as it 
was when she called.  There is a good chance that we will get together in the future.  We 
did a Zoom call last week, and at the end of the call, my wife "welcomed her to our 
family".

For Father's Day, my daughter's gift to me was a one-year subscription  to a site called 
Storyworth.com  She wants me to write my memoirs and after the period of one year 
she will get a hard copy of the book ad so will I.  I called my daughter the night that this 
happened and she suggested that I include this in the book.  I have already written this 
powerful chapter.

Mike Dippel
 
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